Tourism (Tourismus) Archives - Public History Weekly

“It feels brilliantly done!”: An Interview

PHW interviewed Marcel Perren, the director of tourism in Lucerne, a well-known tourist destination in Switzerland.

National swiss history means the ideological, political and institutional points of reference which created an Alpine model of tourism.

This article analyses the shifting meanings of tourism at WWI sites by studying the example of the province of Trento in the Italian Alps.

Conscious publicity campaigns like ‘Incredible India’ are aimed at highlighting the richness of Indian traditions.

This contribution critically outlines History Tourism Research development and structures, its strengths and weaknesses.

Tourism is a large service industries, has growth potential and will continue to produce and use history. Is public history in it a success?

Original sites where historical events took place seem to facilitate the access to history for people from the present.

The perceived uniqueness of a place by its residents has been called “landscape identity”. History shows that mobility was its driving force.